Model of a Caisson and Lock Gate

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-11

Wooden frame model of a treble-keeled caisson with a lock gate.

One side is planked, the other is open. In the middle of the caisson there is a double lock gate, on either side of which there is a flooding chamber.

In 1798, the western harbour at Medemblik was transformed into a naval basin to a design by Pieter Glavimans (1755-1820); the model, representing the lock gate of the basin,¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 11. probably dates from this time.

A very similar model of a caisson is model NG-NM-11408, while the original plans of the caisson are in the collection of the Maritiem Museum in Rotterdam.²²Rotterdam, Maritiem Museum, inv. no. T2256c.

Scale unknown.

J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 11; P.M. Bosscher, ‘Marinegebouwen’, in P. Nijhof and J.M. Bos (eds.), Monumenten van bedrijf en techniek, Zutphen 1978, pp. 187-214, p. 199; G.J. Arends, ‘De ontwikkeling van sluisdeuren in Nederland’, Erfgoed van Industrie en Techniek 3 (1994), no. 2, pp. 73-89

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Caisson and Lock Gate, Netherlands, c. 1798', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242736